P.K Movie Review

Cast: Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjay Dutt, Rohitash Gaud, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukhla, Parikshit Sahni

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

Producers: Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Story & Screenplay: Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijit Joshi

Music: Shantanu Moitra, Ajay Gogavale, Atul Gogavale

Background score: Sanjay Wandrekar, Atul Raninga

Lyrics: Swananda Kirkire, Amitabh Varma

Genre:  comedy, social drama

Parental Guidance: couple of kisses and some talk about sex and condoms.

Release dates:    Dec 19 2014

Rating: **** (4/5)

Review By: Birjis Adeni Rashed

(The aim and intention of my reviews is to critique and recommend while not revealing the whole story to enjoy the movie when seen. But minor details have been divulged for a proper review!)

“Naam kucho naahi hai humaar lekin pata nahi kaahey sab log humka PK-PK bulawat hai?” P.K  is not his name, nor is he tipsy, but he is the outsider, whose’s naïve exploration of religion enlightens his  perspective, in the process exposing the duplicities of godmen who exploit religion and revealing the bigotry, racial divides and charades of  organized religion.

Director Rajkumar Hirani  with Aamir Khan in the lead brilliantly create a satiric comedy  tackling the sensitive issue of religious rituals without being sacrilegious and offensive to any one religion by the pure genius of having an ‘alien’ perspective.

Just like Hirani with his wit and satire artistically exposed the flaws in education systems through 3 Idiots, and shared the Gandhian philosophies through Munna Bhai, in P.K he bravely challenges one more real world issue with his creative artistry.

Though Paresh Rawal starring ‘Oh My God’ handled a similar subject, the simplicity of the story in P.K, and  the ingeniously  crafted scenes, with classic yet cheeky dialogs, rich with  comic wit and ironic humor with the obvious out of this world outlook makes P.K an excellent movie.

Aamir Khan excels as always in his performace. He  enthralls  us with his innocent charm and makes ‘tingga tingga nanga punga’ P.K endearing in spite of his  unblinking, jutting eyes, protruding ears, red pan stained lips, and Bhojpuri accent. Anouska Sharma  portraying a  spirited, ‘bindaas’ bold, and spontaneous  character fits in well.  Sanjay Dutt, Boman Irani and Sushant Rajput in their roles have sweet and pleasant performances. Suarabh Shukla holds fine in the negative role.

The songs and lyrics are fresh and refreshing. The folk song with Rajastani fervor in ‘tharki chokro’ is entertaining, ‘chaar kadam’ is a nice romantic number, ‘Love is a baste of time’ is peppy and  ‘mohabat bare kaam ki cheez hai’ Bhojpuri style. ‘tinga tinga nanga punga’  is rhythmic and fun watch, ‘bhagwaan hai kahan’ has poignant lyrics which strikes an emotional  cord.

I give 4 stars to this movie for Aamir Khan’s magnificent performance, Rajkumar Hirani’s pure genius of story and direction and challenging another real world issue and its all-round entertaining factor.

It’s absolutely worth watching, I already saw it twice in a span of few days ;)